Messages in this thread |  | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Date | Tue, 15 May 2001 18:30:19 -0700 | Subject | Re: Getting FS access events |
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Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > And how are you thinking of this working "without introducing new > interfaces" if the caches are indeed incoherent? Please correct me if I > understand wrong, but when two caches are incoherent, I thought it means > that the above _would_ screw up unless protected by exclusive write locking > as I suggested in my previous post with the side effect that you can't > write the boot block without unmounting the filesystem or modifying some > interface somewhere. >
Not if direct device acess and the superblock exist in the same mapping space, OR an explicit interface to write the boot block is created.
-hpa
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